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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
The Venetian contract
1201 — the crusade’s envoys order a vast fleet from Venice, then cannot pay. The debt puts the whole expedition in the doge’s hands and bends it, step by step, away from Egypt and toward disaster.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Fourth Crusade — The Wrong Ending in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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